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Nation IN BRIEF : MISSOURI : Starvation Ruling in Coma Case Stands

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

A federal judge refused to order state health officials to resume feeding Nancy Cruzan a week after nourishment was halted to the woman, who is in a vegetative state. Food and water were removed from the patient, 33, at a Mt. Vernon, Mo., rehabilitation center. She has been in a coma since suffering massive brain damage in a 1983 traffic accident.

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